flying while pregnant

[beverleymot]

my HR manager offered me ground duties as i cannot carry out my air hostess duties whilst pregnant. i got a letter from the doc saying he wasn't comfortable with me working at the airport. a risk assessment was then done on the airport which came back as safe. I was then told to go straight back to work by HR and i said as i didn't feel comfortable i would be willing to stay at home and not get paid as i read somewhere that you can do this and my job should stay open for me, but now she has emailed me a resignation letter and told me i have to resign. Surely this isn't right?

[beverleymot]

http://books.google.com/books?id=FCxjHcipdFQC& pg=PA643&lpg=PA643&dq=deafness+in+unborn+babie s+from+airports&source=web&ots=S73D_cFw_O&sig= NGeLSQjJKZJW5BTcaGSDBlqZR9U

[redcrx]

so ask to work landside rather than airside. I find it hard to belive that a crew office would be noisy to extreme levels but ask for further details on the decibels.

how many weeks pregnant are you? where have you been working up to now?

[beverleymot]

crew office is next to where the planes take off. i am 22 weeks preg and i would be leaving at 29 weeks anyway so i think they are saying it to get out of paying maternity leave! i have been on unpaid leave up until now which they agreed to

[bednobs]

if working for less than 10 weeks at the landside desk caused you (let alone a baby that's in your womb) to go deaf i woud be very very surprised. if your gp is using rubbish off the internet like the ink yu provided no wonder your occupational health dept arent taking the letter seriously!!!

[beverleymot]

that was just an example bedknobs- he had a whole website on it. And initially it wouldn't have been 10 weeks it would have been at least 26. They did take it seriously they just had to do the assessment else they would have had to pay me. Someone not getting any?!

[bednobs]

i dont think that is true. Any employer has to carry out a risk assessment on pregnant employees to see if there are any risk associated with your job to the unborn child, so they would have done it anyway
I had a look at the website you have quoted and to be honest someone writing in a book that "some researchers speculate that noise may be hazardous to a foetus" is hardly scientific or researched proof that working on an airport causes unborn babies to go deaf, so your doctor has really shot herself/himself in the foot by using what 1 person thinks to even add to an arguement! if i was the occupational health nurse or doctor doing the risk assessment i would be wetting myself at "evidence" such as this and it seems unprofessional of your doctor to use it.